{"id":7413,"date":"2018-11-27T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.fex9ev3q-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2019-08-08T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:39:06","slug":"fintech-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/fintech-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Fintech Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paranoid Internet invited key players in the Fintech\/Blockchain space to advance their ideas and practices through a science fair style competition, Fintech Fair 2018.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7449\" src=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paranoid-internet-meetup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paranoid-internet-meetup.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paranoid-internet-meetup-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paranoid-internet-meetup-20x11.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What is Fintech Fair?<\/h2>\n<p>Experts from Paranoid Internet and the event sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/\">Dash<\/a>, evaluated participating companies based on important, real-world metrics like usability, accessibility, and profitability. Each of the FinTech companies presented for about 5 minutes talking about their project in a science-fair fashion. The audience and participants were given a chance to vote on who wins Paranoid Presents: Fintech Fair 2018.<\/p>\n<h2>Who was There<\/h2>\n<p>We invited our developer friends, crypto enthusiasts, fintech folks, conference attendees, clients, and investors to have the chance to evaluate the competing projects.<\/p>\n<p>The three projects in the fair were <a href=\"https:\/\/basedglobal.com\/\">Based Global<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trydonut.com\/\">Donut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/growthhackunion.com\/\">Growth Hack Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After each participant had a chance to briefly give an introduction to their project before the voting rounds began. The first section was,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most Compelling Use Case for B<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lockchain Technology. Next the competing companies discussed why their project had the greatest potential to disrupt the fintech space. Lastly, the companies discussed which project had the most user friendly experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7451\" src=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-paranoid-internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-paranoid-internet.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-paranoid-internet-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-paranoid-internet-20x11.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The Winner<\/h2>\n<p>The winner of FinTech fair after the rounds of audience votes was Donut. They will have an article released soon in CryptoTicker (700 EUR value) and a Dash wallet with a secret amount of Dash inside!<\/p>\n<h2>Next Fintech Fair<\/h2>\n<p>If your project wishes to compete in the next fintech fair please send a message to office@paranoidinternet.com. The next fair will have more companies and even more audience participation. Be sure to follow Paranoid Internet on all of our social media channels for the most up to date information. Paranoid Internet&#8217;s team is full of true blockchain believers and crypto fanatics. Seeing new and interesting projects is great and a friendly competition is even better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7453\" src=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-pi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-pi.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-pi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/meetup-pi-20x11.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in more Paranoid Internet events check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/web-summit-investor-dinner\/\">article<\/a> from a VIP dinner we hosted during Web Summit 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paranoid Internet invited key players in the Fintech\/Blockchain space to advance their ideas and practices through a science fair style competition, Fintech Fair 2018. What is Fintech Fair? Experts from Paranoid Internet and the event sponsor, Dash, evaluated participating companies based on important, real-world metrics like usability, accessibility, and profitability. Each of the FinTech companies &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/fintech-fair\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fintech Fair<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paranoid-internet.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}